Lodge account and receipt book.



PATENTED SEPT. 13, 1904.

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LODGE ACCOUNT AND RECEIPT BOOK.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 2s, 1902.

No MODEL.

No. 770,120. PATBNTED SEPT. 13, 1904.

J. C. SCOGGINS. LODGE ACCOUNT AND RECEIPT BOOK'l APPLICATION FILED APR. 28, 1902.

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J.. G. SGUGGINS. LODGE ACCOUNT AND RECEIPT BOOK.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 2B, 1902.

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JESSE O. SOOGGINS, OF ALVA, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY.

LODGE ACCOUNT AND RECEIPT BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 770,120, dated September 13, 1904.

' Application filed April Z8, 1902. Serial No. 105,050. (No model.) l

To all wzmn t may concern.-

Be it known that I, Jnssn C. ScoGGINs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Alva, in4

the county of Woods and Territory of Oklahoma, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lodge Account and Receipt Books; and .I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear` and eXact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to books for keeping a list of names of persons who are required to pay dues or assessments at stated periods or at such, times as may be decided upon, the names being alphabetically arranged for convenience of locating.

The object is to lessen the labor of keeping accounts,to preventimposition upon the clerk, secretary, or other person charged with keeping the book, and to prevent loss to the concern, organization, or party to Whom the dues or levy is to be paid.

The invention consists of a book having' a column for the names of the persons belonging to the organization or constituting the membership of the lodge or corporation, other columns having headings designating periods when dues, assessments, or levies are payable and having connected receipts, one for each payment, to be detached and given to the person when payment is made to serve as a voucher and at the same time act as a check against the clerk even though the amount paid in is not credited on the proper column, the amount of the detached receipt being chargeable to the clerk.

The invention also consists of the novel features which hereinafter will be more fully described, illustrated, and finally claimed.

In the drawings forming a part of this speciication, Figure l is a perspective view of a book embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a detail View, on a larger scale. the lower portion of the book being broken away. Fig. 3 is a View similar to Eig. 2, showing some of the receipts detached and corresponding entries made upon the ledger side. Fig. 4. is a detail view of a receipt. Fig. 5 is a detail view of a portion of the third sheet of receipts.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

The book may be of any size and comprise any number of sheets, depending upon the membership or the list of names to be entered therein. One page, preferably the left-hand, is subdivided into vertical and horizontal columns and constitutes the ledger page orside of the book. This page is provided near the left-hand edge with a vertical column or space l for reception of the names of the persons belonging to the organization, lodge, company, or the like having a membership. A column or space 2, joining the name space or column and to the right thereof, is adapted to receive the year and the amount for which the person is insured. The columns 3, 4:, and 5 to the right of the column or space 2 are adapted to receive the adoption or initiation fee, the age of the party insured, and the amount of d ues or assessments. The columns 6 to 17, inclusive, correspond to the twelve calendar months of a year, provided the dues or assessments are payable monthly. There may be a greater or less number o f these columns, according to the number of payments to be made in a given period of time-say one year. An additional column, as 18, is provided for any eXtra assessment or levy, and in this connection it is to be understood that any desired number of columns I8 may be provided. The vertical column or space I9 represents the lodge-fund and the column or space 2O the sickfund, and the column or space 2l is for entry of the total amount of payments made during a given time. The series of vertical spaces or columns l to 2l is subdivided by spaced horizontal lines to provide horizontal spaces B, corresponding to the account for each member or individual. The names of the members are entered in the vertical column or space l alphabetically, as indicated most clearly in Fig. 3, and the amount of the policy of insurance is entered in the space 2, the adoptionfee in the column 8, age in the space 4, dues or assessments in the space 5, and the payments when made in the respective columns 6 .to 2O in the order of payment.

The page or pages C, forming a part of the book and bound therein with the ledger-pages, are subdivided into receipts D, preferably separable by perforated break-lines to admit of ready detachment of the receipts when payments are made.

In order that the book may be of a minimum size, a number of receipt-pages are provided for each ledger-page, the receipts being in line with the respective spaces B and one receipt being provided for each of the vertical spaces or columns 3 to 20. In the present instance five pages or sheets of receipts are provided for each ledger-sheet, and each sheet C contains three receipts for the corresponding space B of the ledger-sheet. Of the sheets of receipts the outermost receipts of sheet 1 are numbered 1 and correspond to the first assessment or payment of dues, and the corresponding receipts of the following sheets are correspondingly numbered 2, 3, and 4, with the exception of the last or sheet 5, the receipts of the last sheet, No. 5, not being numbered because provided for eXtra assessments that may be levied. The middle receipts of the first four sheets are numbered consecutively from 5 to 8, and the inner receipts of the corresponding sheets are numbered from 9 to 12.

The first name appearing in the column or space 1 is Abner, J and the amount of the policy two thousand dollars, the adoption fee six dollars, the age thirty-five, and the amount of assessment or dues forty cents per thousand. The assessments for each month are, eighty cents, and payment has been made for the months of January and February, the same having been entered in the columns 6 and 7 and the receipts 1 and 2 having been torn from sheets 1 and 2, as indicated in Fig. 3. rfhe next name appearing is Action, W., the amount of the policy being one thousand dollars, adoption fee siX dollars, age twenty-eight, assessment per thousand seventy cents, and the first payment for the month of January having been paid, all of which have been properly entered in corresponding columns of the ledger-sheet. rIhe first payment having been paid, receipt No. 1 has been torn from the receipt-sheet, asindicated in Fig. 3. Action having died on the 15th of January, proper entry has been made, as indicated in said Fig. 3. The third name, Arlington, J is insured for two thousand dollars, adoption fee of six dollars having been paid, and is aged twenty-live, the assessment per thousand beingtwenty-five cents. Three payments for the months of January, February, and March have been made and the corresponding receipts torn from sheets 1, 2, and 3 given to the party making the payments.

Some time during the month of March and prior to April Arlington was transferred. The various entries have been made in the proper columns intersected by the horizontal space B, as indicated in Fig. 3.

When a member makes payment of dues or assessments and receives the receipt therefor from a sheet of the book, the clerk, secretary, or other party having charge of said book is held accountable for said receipt or the amount thereof, even though he neglects to enter the sum on the proper column of the ledger page or sheet. Hence the organization, company, or concern cannot suffer from any shortage due to misappropriation of moneys paid as dues or assessments. On the other hand, if a member claims to have paid certain dues or assessments and the book contains receipts for the period for which payment is alleged to have been made, it is proof that said party has not made payment, or if the dues have been liquidated and the member neglected to take a receipt therefor he is the victim of his own negligence or oversight, because the record is against his allegation and nothing remains but to make payment, as shown by the record. Should the party make payment and receive a receipt, which subsequently becomes lost or misplaced, the book by the absence of said receipt is proof that payment has been made.

' From the foregoing it will be readily understood that the book facilitates and lessens the labor of keeping of accounts and insures protection of the members as well as the lodge, corporation, organization, or concern against any unscrupulous clerk, secretary, or other party having charge of the books or accounts.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new isv A combined account and receipt book, comprising a number of ledger-sheets, each sheet provided with a vertical row of spaces, a separate horizontal row of spaces opposite each first-named space, and in a line therewith and suitably designated to indicate different divisions of time, and aseries of receipt-sheets connected with'each ledger-sheet, and said receiptsheets having several separate horizontal rows of detachable receipts arranged opposite and in a line with each horizontal row of spaces, the corresponding rows of receipts carried by the several receipt-sheets opposite each horizontal row of spaces corresponding in number to the number of columns of time-designated spaces.

In testimony whereof I ax my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JESSE C. SCOGGINS.

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